Kent’s Recommended Listen:
Sixpence None the Richer:
The Fatherless and the Widow
There’s a track on this CD I’m listening to, called “Soul,” which always annoys me. It’s about a father who’s dead; fatalistically, the writer decides we’ll never know his condition until he’s joined in the afterlife.
It’s funny… Christians often say, “Well, we won’t know that until we’re in heaven with Jesus.” Then they use the exact opposite argument in evangelism: “You don’t want to wait until you’re dead to find out your eternal destination!”
Isn’t the whole point behind the revelations in the bible that we don’t have to wait until the afterlife to find stuff out? Yet I hear this all the time from non-charismatics. They seem to be perfectly satisfied with a God who doesn’t talk to them anymore. (Must be easier on the conscience.) I couldn’t be. I’d be pissed at God if he cut me off that way. Who wants to follow a God who won’t answer your questions?
(I should qualify that… Sometimes God answers my questions with “You don’t need to know that” or “It’s beyond you” or “I already said it in Scripture; read your bible.” They’re not always answers I like, but they’re answers. They’re not nothing.)